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Mad Grot Docsnik

Posted 24 November 2011 - 10:14 AM

Mad Grot Docsnik

Head Honcho

Nobz

3,750 posts

Gender:Male

Location:da Armpit uda East (NJ)

Army Name:Thousand Tribes Waaagh

yeah that's a perrenial problem with bosspoles and one of the reasons that there aren't a lot of them in my army. The key there is your transport methods. Face it, the ladz generally take more damage in storage and transport than they do on the table. Of course the taller a model gets the more likely it is to catch a sleeve and get launched off the table or get knocked over by an adjacent piece. So if you are using a flying mount the iron gob solution is usually a better choice as it keeps total height down. Big horns are the other klassik ork nob choice for badge of rank. Those can be added in a multitude of forms, helmet mount, shoulder mount, weapon mounted, etc.

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Phillip Corrie

Posted 24 November 2011 - 07:50 PM

Phillip Corrie

Yoof

Boyz

207 posts

Gender:Male

Location:The dump in the middle

Army Name:My stuff

Quoted as per Ork Codex:
"Ork nobz often have trophy pole, a metal jaw, or some other sign of their status to show that they are not to be messed with."
Given this, it would be conceivable that a Nob for the Storm Boys can be picked out for having a boss pole by giving the model a hwlmet with big horns (the Black Reach Nob head with the longer and straighter horns will do nicely), or the addition of a head or two on the belt (think severed head from the Boyz sprue). The jaw plates in the Nob set are other great examples for the effect you are looking for too.

Taytonclait

Posted 24 November 2011 - 09:07 PM

Taytonclait

Runtherd

Boyz

326 posts

Gender:Male

Location:Vancouver BC

Horns would look amazingly badass on a stormboy nob anyways, and a bosspole would just catch on, you know, powerlines and snag passing birds when Old Brikkfist or whomever is trying to stomp down on something fun. A cool trophy, also, could be the nob carrying a dead enemy, headless, in mid flight, with the helmet stabbed on some convenient armour plate or something. What better thing to throw down on the next squad you're attacking, than the body of the sergeant/leader of the squad you wiped out before?